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confidence men had when they knew they could win a fight. They looked like soldiers, but the amusement in their eyes suggested that they weren’t as moralistic.
    “Get your goddamned stinking hands off me,” I said.
    He rammed my arm higher behind my back. I rose onto my toes, trying to compensate. It took a few seconds for me to be able to suck some air into my lungs.
    “Now why would I want to do that? I’m in for a bit of playing. How about you boys?” His colleagues answered with an affirmative grunt.
    “Seth, let me go now, and I won’t kill you,” I said, latching on to his name.
    Seth laughed softly. His chest reverberated against my back. His other hand snaked across my stomach, upward until he palmed my breast. He dug his fingers into me, rolling my nipple between his thumb and forefinger. My stomach clenched.
    “Hmm. Not much of you, but you’ll still do nicely.”
    He tucked his mouth into the place where my neck met my shoulders and licked me all the way up my neck. He pulled my ear lobe into his mouth, taking the end between his teeth, flicking my skin with the end of his tongue. I clenched my teeth trying not to make a sound. He’d get off on that.
    “You’re disgusting,” I whispered, trying not to let my voice wobble.
    “I like you like this.” His breath was hot in my ear.
    I swallowed hard, forcing some spit into my mouth. “I told you to get your hands off me.”
    “You said you would kill me,” Seth said. There was a sound of amusement from one of his friends.
    “Let me go.”
    “Mmm. You’re delicious. I’m going to have you all to myself.”
    “You won’t live to see the day.”
    Although I talked tough, I was way beyond the limits of my body. I struggled against an edge of unconsciousness that would take me under if I let it. I knew this time it would wipe me out, but not using it would be worse. I didn’t even know if I had anything left inside of me, but there was no way I could physically fight my way out of here.
    I braced a palm onto his chest, willing whatever thought-energy I had in me into my hand and pushed with all of my strength. Seth uttered a surprised sound. Relief slithered down my arm. He dropped my wrist as he was propelled back.
    I pushed out again, watching him stagger until his back was pressed against the wall on the opposite side of the alley. I concentrated hard, keeping him there with what energy I scraped together.
    He grinned. “What’s the matter, don’t want to play anymore?”
    A frown pushed my brows. He didn’t show any surprise. As though what I’d done was an everyday thing. He smirked. His reaction to me wasn’t what I expected. He wasn’t frightened, just curious. Almost like he wanted me to use my ability on him, see how far I could take it.
    “This is very interesting. You’ll have to tell me how you do this when we meet next,” he said.
    “There won’t be a next time.”
    “I very much doubt that. We’ve been waiting a long time for you to come out and play,” he said.
    “Who ... who’s been waiting for me?”
    A slow smile spread on Seth’s mouth. “I think you know the answer to that.”
    But I didn’t. I couldn’t. Everyone I knew had to be dead and buried by now. And yet, I was here. An impossibility. A fantasy. But reality. If I was here, then ... I didn’t want to conceive of it. But it was my father’s doing that I was here in this time. Who was to say he hadn’t somehow done the same to himself. “Victor.” I did little more than breathe his name.
    Seth’s smile spread, but there was no warmth in it. “You’ll have to find out, little mouse.”
    “How did you know I’d be here? In this place, at this time. You tell me who is behind all this. Tell me now!”
    “So many questions. Put your mind to it. You’ll work it out. Or should I help you?” He stepped toward me, struggling against my thought-energy, but still able to push against it. I must be weaker than I thought. Perspiration cloaked my